John & Ruthie Weed

John & Ruthie Weed serve in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and have two children: Daniel (15) and Joshua (9).They have been there for 18 years, after having served in the Ivory Coast for 5 years, and before that in Egypt for 3 years.

Currently, they are are on a medical furlough and plan to return to Kazakhstan in August of this year pending John's medical clearance in May, his second 6 month check-up
since having cancer surgery in March of 2010. He is presently cancer free, praise the Lord! Their next furlough will be in 2014.

The Weeds' Mission is to reach the unreached Muslims of Central Asia (EurAsia) with the Gospel and plant healthy, thriving Churches among them. This would be among Kazakhs,
Uighurs and Tatars. Since they arrived in 1991, they have seen the Lord bless with 70 church plants or or Mission Churches in 5 countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgistan, Tajikistan,
China and Russia.

God continues to bless their work. The main mark of progress is to see their national leaders rise up and begin to lead in our absence, and many of our earlier planted churches have become self supporting. Also there were over 500 decisions made for the Lord in 2010, and most of those were among Muslim background people. God is good! Two new churches were planted, and it was an excellent year for our Bible School, with over 100 leaders trained.

We plan to see two more Churches planted and are praying for 750 decisions among the Muslims of Central Asia by the end of the year.